Message from Northern Rivers Railway Action Group Dear Team, As we all live at the far flung districts of the Region and have no train service to enable easy meeting, I am copying you my March Plan, Route Plan and Safety Management Plan. It is attached as an easy to Print PDF, or copied below.…
Category: Climate Change
Final Draft Rural Land Strategy presentation
There will be a drop-in session at Murwillumbah Civic Centre’s Canvas and Kettle Room, Thursday February 1 from 7pm to 8:30pm. The session will cover the more than 140 proposed actions in the Draft Strategy which will shape the future of rural land use in Tweed Shire. Draft Rural Land Strategy on exhibition until 28th February.
Journey to Stop Adani frontline
A journey to the front line is being arranged by the Northern Rivers Stop Adani Group leaving on January 13 and returning on January 21. Living costs for the week on the front line are $250 and include everything. For more information look up the Stop Adani Byron Shire Facebook page. You can also post questions and ask…
Frontline Action on Coal
Ways to help from home http://www.frontlineaction.org/get-involved To join the frontline action http://www.frontlineaction.org/pledge/
VICTORY. Downer drops Adani!
This is HUGE!! Downer quietly dropped to the stock exchange this morning that they will no longer build or operate Adani’s Carmichael mine. Adani are pretending that it’s ‘mutual’, that they can build the mine themselves. But Adani have never built a mine in Australia and never built a mine this big. They simply can’t…
Stand with the Wangan & Jagalingou people
At any moment, the Queensland Government could extinguish Wangan and Jagalingou native title rights in the Galilee Basin – the land Adani wants to build their Carmichael mega mine on. [1] The Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) Family Council have already said NO to Adani four times and are in the midst of a court battle…
Stop Adani Tweed campaign launch
Wednesday 13 December, 7-9 pm. Regent Cinema, Murwillumbah. Screening ‘Guarding the Galilee’ documentary, speakers, Q&A panel. Food for sale and live music from 6pm. Tickets at the door or online at http://www.trybooking.com/337282
Repower NSW Week of Action
The Nature Conservation Council is calling on us to sign the petition to Repower NSW with clean energy. CEC stall at Murwillumbah Farmers Market Wednesday 22 November.
Renewable energy at Council
Renewable Energy Action Plan and Renewable Energy Study 2017
Stop Adani Big Day of Action Cabarita Oct 7
Draft Crown Land Management Regulation 2017
Future protection, management, use, transfer or sale of our publicly owned Crown Lands will be defined by the draft Regulation now on exhibition. The Regulations underpin the Crown Land Management Act 2016 (NSW). Comment can be made until midnight on Sunday 15 October 2017. Documents that explain the Draft Regulation and inform submissions are: Draft Crown Land Management…
Stop Adani Big Day of Action Cabarita 7 Oct
11am – 1pm. Norries Headland, Cabarita. Join forces with the Stop Adani campaign to create human signs at iconic locations across Australia. At the local event there will be photos at the headland followed by a picnic, so please spread the word, wear red, bring a picnic rug and something to eat.
Sunlight and Seaweed
Sunlight and Seaweed , the most recent book by Tim Flannery is a must-read book for all who want to look straight ahead at climate change and its effect on our planet and our lives. Importantly it is a book that presents hopeful solutions in the face of these challenges. Flannery believes we cannot now…
An Inconvenient Sequel
Keep speaking out against Adani
A message from GetUp.. Since we last spoke, we’ve had two huge wins against Adani. The momentum is palpable. First, after almost 8,000 of you chipped in to run a huge marginal seats campaign, another Coalition MP has publicly defied Turnbull over the $1 billion dollar Adani loan. The campaign is now in full swing,…
Northern Rivers Railway Action Group – Film Screening Night 13 March
Climate Emergency Declaration Petition
Calling on the Australian Parliament to declare a climate emergency and to mobilise resources to restore a safe climate. http://climateemergencydeclaration.org/petition2/ Steve Posselt is a Northern Rivers man kayaking to Canberra where he will deliver the signatures on Feb 26. More about Steve’s trip at http://districtbulletin.com.au/steve-posselt-climate-change-kayak/
Have your say – Draft Coastal Management SEPP and Coastal Maps
There is still time to have you say on protections for our sensitive coastal environments – the submission deadline has been extended until Friday 20 January 2017. The NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DOPE) is undertaking public consultation on a Draft Coastal Management State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) and Draft Coastal Mapping. The Coastal Management…
North Coast Energy Forum 2016 – It’s a wrap!
Welcome to the final NCEF newsletter for 2016, and for a while thereafter. First of all, a huge thank you to everyone involved in this year’s forum – the sponsors, speakers, organising committee, and of course all of you who attended. As with previous years we had over 100 people there, despite a paucity of…
Solar citizens – Northern Rivers 100% Renewables Forum
Tuesday 29th November, 6:30-8:30 pm (doors open at 6pm). Lismore City Hall, 1 Bounty St, Lismore, NSW. RSVP here. This event is part of our 100% Renewables Roadshow, with forums in towns and cities across the country. It will feature a presentation of the Homegrown Power Plan — a comprehensive policy road map designed by…
Laws passed – Baird condemns wildlife to bulldozers
Premier Baird just gutted the land-clearing laws that have been saving the lives of thousands of native animals like koalas, pygmy possums and squirrel gliders every year. After several fiery hours of debate, it took just a few minutes for the final vote to seal the fate for our endangered wildlife. It’s a decision that…
Catalyst – The Anthropocene: a new age of humans
Human impacts on the way our planet functions have now become so extreme many scientists are claiming the Earth has shifted out of the Holocene state and into a new geological epoch. They’re calling it ‘The Anthropocene’, the new age of humans, because millions of years after we are gone, the scar of our existence…
The Bentley Effect – Regent Cinema – 18 November
When the coal seam gas industry staked aclaim on the Northern Rivers region of Australia, alarm bells rang out. A critical mass of people from all walks of life – activists, farmers, landowners, mums, dads, scientists, etc – organised themselves to rally against the unconventional gas invasion. Despite the enormous public opposition, the gas industry…
NSW Climate Change Policy Framework released
The policy sets two aspirational objectives: Achieving net zero emissions by 2050. NSW being more resilient to a changing climate. The NSW government has also announced a $500 million funding package and released two draft climate change and energy savings documents for public consultation: Draft Climate Change Fund Strategic Plan A Plan to Save NSW…
2016 North Coast Energy Forum
Theme: “The local energy revolution: Solar plus batteries plus us”. Friday, 25 November, 2016 The North Coast Energy Forum was established in 2010 to drive the shift to a sustainable energy system for the NSW North Coast. Every year over 100 representatives of industry, government and the community come together to plan how to make this…
Home Expo – Living for the Future 2016
Saturday 3 September 2016 from 9am – 2pm, Seagulls Club, Gollan Drive, Tweed Heads West. A one-stop-shop of local suppliers and inspirers with ideas and solutions for more sustainable living in the Tweed. The Expo aims to help people: save costs be energy and water efficient reuse resources and reduce waste enhance the local environment…
Update from Enova Energy
Seeking sustainable homes to open for Sustainable House Day
FREE EDO WORKSHOP: How to Have Your Say: NSW Coastal Management reforms
Caldera Environment Centre will host a free EDO NSW workshop in Cabarita to explain the new draft framework for coastal management for NSW and how the community can have their say and respond to the reforms. Late last year the NSW Government released the coastal management reforms package proposing new laws and significant changes to…